The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 President Trump just issued the most important executive order of his presidencies, plural,

00:00:05.900 and virtually no one noticed. AOC is almost certainly running for president in 2028.

00:00:11.380 And a liberal judge was just arrested, along with his wife,

00:00:15.740 for housing three Tren de Aragua gang members. I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. George Clooney, the Democrats' top lib in Hollywood,

00:00:45.020 the man who took out Joe Biden with the New York Times op-ed. George Clooney is admitting

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00:02:23.440 so they know that I sent you. This liberal judge, this is my favorite story of the day.

00:02:28.240 This liberal judge, well, it's not true. The executive order is my favorite. There are too

00:02:31.540 many good stories. It's the tired of winning problem. Judge Juan Cano and his wife were both

00:02:39.860 just arrested for harboring Tren de Aragua gang members. So this guy was, he just resigned,

00:02:46.940 a Doña Ana County magistrate judge. And it is alleged that Cano and his wife let three

00:02:54.400 illegal aliens who are allegedly associated with this Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua,

00:03:01.320 that is to say a foreign terrorist organization, into his home.

00:03:05.480 And I'm sure in this guy's mind, he's, you know, the good German citizen housing the poor innocent

00:03:13.400 Jews from the Nazis in World War II. And what they fail to see is that there is a distinction

00:03:21.360 between innocent people persecuted by a tyrannical government and face tattooed terrorists who rape

00:03:29.500 and murder and traffic fentanyl and break our basic laws. But in their minds, they're always

00:03:36.640 attracted to the worst people. We were just talking about this the other day. It was Scott Jennings

00:03:44.280 on CNN, the conservative on CNN. He said, I don't know why it is that the left is always attracted to

00:03:49.340 the worst people. And I do understand that actually, because their loves are disordered,

00:03:55.640 because the libs just have something off about their desire, about their fundamental premises,

00:04:01.520 about the basic aspects of their politics, then of course, they're always going to be attracted to

00:04:07.040 the worst people in the same way that your rebellious sister always dates the worst guys.

00:04:11.980 It's usually not that you date just one really bad guy and a bunch of really good guys.

00:04:15.920 It's usually not that you're attracted politically to one really bad, terrible, awful politician,

00:04:21.360 but then the rest of them are really good and wholesome and upstanding and virtuous.

00:04:24.120 It's kind of all or nothing. So the libs up to and including their judges

00:04:30.120 are so perverse in their understanding of justice and politics that their judges will subvert the law

00:04:39.540 by housing illegal aliens who are among the worst criminals on earth today.

00:04:48.000 And they've been arrested, which is good. And our political lesson from this is

00:04:52.140 more people need to be arrested. More people who are breaking our laws need to be arrested.

00:04:59.580 We tried to play nice. We tried to warn them. We campaigned. We said, hey, if you don't shape up,

00:05:05.920 we're going to arrest you. And they didn't shape up. We even said, please self-deport.

00:05:10.340 We've been saying this since the Mitt Romney campaign. You're going to self-deport.

00:05:13.280 Please don't make us arrest you and deport you. And we don't want to do it, but they won't do it.

00:05:20.720 The libs just won't do it. They just keep it up. And so

00:05:23.520 you got to follow through sometimes, okay? You need to... It's not enough to just pass new laws

00:05:32.440 or write new executive orders. It's not enough to reward people for good behavior.

00:05:36.320 You need the carrot, but you need the stick. And we need to start smacking people with the stick a

00:05:41.960 little bit. The political stick. The stick through the civil authority. The stick of arresting even

00:05:48.980 their judges. That's how corrupt the American left has become. Now, speaking of these liberal judges,

00:05:55.240 an amazing argument made by Ketanji Jackson yesterday. You know, Ketanji,

00:06:00.760 the newest lib justice on the Supreme Court, Ketanji Jackson, and the rest of the justices

00:06:07.320 were hearing the oral arguments in Mahmoud V. Taylor. Mahmoud V. Taylor is this case about

00:06:15.180 religious freedom and schools. The school board in Montgomery County, Maryland instituted a few years

00:06:21.780 ago a gay curriculum, an LGBT curriculum in elementary schools all the way down to kindergarten.

00:06:31.440 Actually, that's not true. All the way down to pre-kindergarten. In the pre-K, in this public

00:06:36.300 school, they were teaching kids, indoctrinating kids into LGBT propaganda. And they did this through

00:06:43.200 the English curriculum. They put all these sort of storybooks in that were about weird sex stuff,

00:06:47.480 even for four-year-olds. And the rationale for the program, according to the school system,

00:06:52.180 was to disrupt the binary thinking of children. So they're going in, the school is saying, we are

00:07:02.380 ordering the English curriculum for the purpose of confusing four-year-old kids about sex.

00:07:09.340 And what do you know, parents objected to that. And parents objected specifically on religious

00:07:15.340 grounds. That was the in that they found. So we're talking Christian parents, we're talking Jewish

00:07:19.300 parents, we're talking Muslim parents, we're talking all sorts of parents, appeal this case.

00:07:26.360 First, they take it to court. A lower court sides with Maryland's school district, which isn't just

00:07:31.680 some random school district. It's the biggest school district in Maryland. Then it gets appealed

00:07:36.480 and appealed. It goes all the way up to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court agreed to take the case up

00:07:40.400 in January. And Ketanji Jackson, one of the most liberal jurists in the country, comes out and

00:07:48.220 poses this question to the parents who don't want their four-year-olds indoctrinated into creepy sex

00:07:54.480 stuff in public school.

00:07:55.500 The parent can choose to put their kid elsewhere. You don't have to send your kid to public school.

00:08:03.860 I'm struggling to see how it burdens a parent's religious exercise. If the school teaches something

00:08:10.780 that the parent disagrees with, you have a choice. You can homeschool them.

00:08:15.400 You have a choice. You can homeschool. Hey, look, the left is in favor of homeschooling now.

00:08:19.460 Boy, my head is spinning. The left, which has spent decades deriding homeschooling, the left,

00:08:27.060 which has spent a century or more trying to force your kids into public school and have them learn

00:08:33.580 exactly what they want them to learn. Now they're saying, no, you can homeschool. You have a choice.

00:08:38.280 You don't have to go to that public school that your tax dollars are funding. You don't have to go there.

00:08:44.380 But it's kind of funny how this argument only ever goes in one direction.

00:08:47.680 Because I remember another case was working its way through the courts for approximately

00:08:51.460 12 years. And that was the case of Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop.

00:08:58.160 Jack Phillips, who owned probably the one bake shop in all of Colorado that did not want to create

00:09:06.500 custom cakes, custom art pieces for so-called gay weddings and weird trans ceremonies and all the

00:09:14.060 rest. And this guy was ruthlessly targeted by the gay stopo for a dozen years and by leftist lawyers

00:09:20.600 and leftist judges for a dozen years because he was the one guy. He didn't even say people who identify

00:09:27.920 as homosexual and transgender. He didn't say they can't come into his store. He didn't say they can't

00:09:31.780 buy his cakes. He just said that he was not going to use his artistic skill to create custom pieces to

00:09:37.380 participate in ceremonies that he considered immoral and contrary to his religion. This guy had his life

00:09:43.220 practically ruined by these people for a dozen years. You don't need to go to that cake shop

00:09:50.540 never factored in to the arguments from the left. And it was difficult to find a cake shop in the state

00:09:59.360 of Colorado that would not participate in so-called gay marriages and transgender ceremonies. In the

00:10:06.060 case of the school district in Maryland, this is the public school. This is a school that these parents'

00:10:12.120 tax dollars are funding. And now all of a sudden the left says, well, you don't need to send your kid

00:10:16.760 to public school. If you don't want your four-year-old indoctrinated into creepy sex stuff, then just

00:10:22.380 homeschool. Never mind that homeschooling is expensive. Never mind that homeschooling is difficult

00:10:28.820 in a society that is accustomed and feels it necessary to have two incomes. Never mind all

00:10:36.860 of the burdens. Never mind that the parents are already paying for the public school and they have

00:10:40.100 a right to not have their four-year-olds exposed to obscene content in preschool. No, no, no. Now

00:10:46.320 all of a sudden, homeschool, please, come on. You don't need to be here. When it's convenient for

00:10:52.720 the left, everyone must be brought to heel. Everyone must be forced as a matter of

00:10:58.560 compulsory law and regulation and enforcement to do what the left wants. But when the right

00:11:07.520 has a legitimate objection that can't be overcome, then all of a sudden, well, go do your own thing.

00:11:14.080 But this is why homeschooling is great. I mean, we're homeschooling. Many of my conservative

00:11:22.360 friends are homeschooling. I love homeschooling. But it's not enough. And I think this is the lesson

00:11:28.220 of Trump. The shift from the Tea Party era to the Trump era is this shift, is this lesson. Yeah.

00:11:36.980 Being left alone to do what we would like to do is good. But we live in society and ultimately,

00:11:43.840 there is no being left alone. We all have to live together. So homeschooling, it's great. It's a good

00:11:49.820 temporary fix. We need to take back the schools. We need to take back the public schools. And it's not

00:11:56.080 enough to say we're going to exempt ourselves from your creepy sex curriculum. No, no, no. We're going

00:12:01.640 to kick your creepy sex curriculum out of the school. When you violate our laws and our regulations

00:12:08.100 and our standards and norms, we're going to punish you through the civil authority.

00:12:12.920 And we're taking back our schools. And we're taking back our courts. And if you got criminal judges,

00:12:19.520 we're going to arrest those judges. And we're taking back our society. And if you're not supposed to be

00:12:23.280 here, and if you're an illegal alien criminal, you're going back. And we're going to make a deal

00:12:28.040 with Nayib Bukele. And you're going back to a prison in El Salvador. And you're not getting out of it

00:12:31.460 anytime soon. Okay. That's the difference. It's the difference between the Tea Party era focusing on

00:12:38.900 that notion of negative liberty. You know, Isaiah Berlin, the negative liberty to just be left alone.

00:12:44.040 Please leave me alone. Please, I just want to be left alone. Well, you didn't leave us alone.

00:12:47.860 And now we're not going to leave you alone. Okay. Because you know what? Left, you were right.

00:12:53.100 We live in society. No man is an island unto himself. And so, okay, we're going to participate

00:12:58.840 in society. And maybe you shouldn't have pushed us so hard because you might not like the standards

00:13:05.080 and norms that we are going to restore so that we can have a good, flourishing, great country again.

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00:14:25.020 subscription. Speaking of legal standards, this is the most important thing Trump has done.

00:14:31.240 It's an, it's an executive order. It just came out and virtually no one is talking about it,

00:14:37.520 but it is the most significant executive order Trump has ever issued. I'll just give you the

00:14:44.440 one line summary of it under, under the policy section of this executive order. It is the policy

00:14:50.120 of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate impact in all contexts to the maximum

00:14:55.420 degree possible. What is disparate impact? Most people probably have never heard of this. If they

00:15:02.620 have heard of it once or twice on the news, they don't know what it is. Trump explains in the

00:15:07.140 executive order. And I'm going to greatly pare down the executive order to just a handful of

00:15:13.900 paragraphs that really sum it up. It opens up a bedrock principle of the United States is that all

00:15:19.760 citizens are treated equally under the law, but a pernicious movement endangers this foundational

00:15:25.600 principle. A key tool of this movement is disparate impact liability, which holds that a near

00:15:33.420 insurmountable presumption of unlawful discrimination exists where there are any differences in outcomes

00:15:40.580 in certain circumstances among different races, sexes, or similar groups, even if there is no

00:15:46.920 facially discriminatory policy or practice or discriminatory intent involved, and even if

00:15:52.600 everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Disparate impact liability all but requires individuals and

00:15:59.640 businesses to consider race and engage in racial balancing to avoid potentially crippling legal

00:16:05.180 liability. It not only undermines our national values, but also runs contrary to equal protection

00:16:10.880 under the law and therefore violates our constitution. I'll tell you how this works.

00:16:14.240 Well, I'll tell you how this should work if it were applied equally.

00:16:18.100 A lawyer would look at the NBA and would say, okay, the country is 60% white people, 12 or 13% black

00:16:28.460 people. The NBA is 175% black people, at least among the players. I don't know about the coaches and

00:16:35.500 the executives, but among the players, it's about 10,000% black people. So there's something wrong

00:16:42.780 here. There must be racial discrimination in hiring. They're discriminating against white people on the

00:16:48.060 basketball court. Now, of course, disparate impact is never applied this way. It is only ever applied

00:16:54.900 to benefit black people or Hispanic people or racial minorities of a favored group to the detriment of

00:17:03.980 white people or, I don't know, I guess sometimes Asian people are damaged by these racial policies as

00:17:08.580 well. That's how it works. So you go in, you say, okay, here's a random company and the executives

00:17:17.660 are, let's say, I don't know, 90% white and 10% black or 5% black and 5% Hispanic or whatever.

00:17:28.380 And you say, well, okay, well that just on its face, that's evidence of racial discrimination.

00:17:32.440 Now, never, it could be a mayonnaise company. Black people don't like mayonnaise that much.

00:17:36.320 Doesn't matter. Could be a swimming company, but like people don't really swim. It doesn't,

00:17:39.320 doesn't matter. Anytime you go there and you see any differences in a racial representation,

00:17:47.760 some leftist lawyer can go in and say, this is evidence of racism, even when there's no evidence

00:17:51.720 of that whatsoever. Okay. And it's just a way for leftist radicals to bully companies and to impose

00:18:01.060 a radical racial agenda and ideology that the left has had for a long time. Trump is coming out and

00:18:06.900 saying enough of the madness because that agenda actually contradicts a more fundamental agenda

00:18:16.680 in the United States, which is equal protection under the law, which is our constitutional rights,

00:18:24.900 which used to be freedom of association. We don't really have that anymore, but at least

00:18:28.720 involves some degree of being able to operate without being presumed to be some kind of awful

00:18:36.880 hateful, hateful bigot who's, who's, uh, you know, intentionally harming people and excluding

00:18:41.880 them from society. Really, really big thing. This is, this is, as Trump says, this is a key tool

00:18:49.120 of this leftist movement that has sown so much discord into the country and really damaged our

00:18:54.360 country. It's so undermined a bedrock principle of the country and he just slips it in there. So it

00:19:00.620 would be great if some of these executive orders could be codified into law. The Congress is having

00:19:05.200 trouble doing that because it's a tight majority, but what we're seeing now with, with the Trump

00:19:12.400 admin, because much of what they can do is just through executive action, we're seeing what the

00:19:19.480 country could look like. Here's just a little test. Here's what we, what we could have. And if we,

00:19:26.460 if we do want that to survive into the next administration, we need to codify these things

00:19:30.380 in law. Meanwhile, the left is already preparing its presidential candidates. And this one,

00:19:37.580 well, I warned you about this a week or two ago, but my prediction, my Nolstradamus prediction appears

00:19:43.280 to be correct. I, and you know, this is after I made Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen actually

00:19:49.940 bring a meme that I had created to life when he went down and had that romantic lunch date with

00:19:54.420 Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And well, this would appear to be another one, you know, I hate to say I told

00:19:58.520 you so. AOC just put out this political commercial. Tell me what you think she's doing here.

00:20:10.680 You know, Idaho, I am so touched being here. I'm a girl from the Bronx. To be welcomed here in this

00:20:20.040 state, all of us together, seeing our common cause. This is what this country is all about.

00:20:26.780 Don't let them trick us into thinking we are enemies. Don't let them trick us into thinking

00:20:32.700 we can be separated into rural and urban, black and white and Latino. We are one.

00:20:38.780 And Idaho, I know that looking around here, it can feel impossible for Republicans out here to be

00:20:46.340 defeated. That's not true. It's simply not true. And from the waitress who is now speaking to you

00:20:55.320 today from this podium, I can tell you impossible is nothing. She's running for president. In case

00:21:04.780 you're the one person out there who didn't catch it, she's running for president. What is AOC doing in

00:21:11.460 Idaho? Some people think she just wants to challenge Chuck Schumer or someone, become a senator from New

00:21:18.100 York. That's when you campaign in Albany. That's when you campaign in Buffalo. She's in Idaho and

00:21:26.760 she's showing these big crowds with all the presidential lighting. She's doing the thing

00:21:31.080 that all the consultants for the presidential ads tell you to do, which is introduce yourself to the

00:21:35.160 people. Opens up, hello, Idaho. I'm a girl from the Bronx. She's pretty famous. So people know that,

00:21:41.480 no, you got to introduce yourself. And then you have to bring people together. AOC is known for

00:21:46.620 rather divisive rhetoric, class warfare, intense leftism, being dismissive and derogatory toward

00:21:57.780 people on the right, but not in this ad. In this ad, she's just doing her own imitation of Barack Obama

00:22:02.960 in 2006. There's no red America. There are no white America, blue and purple and orange America

00:22:10.320 or United States of America. This whole kind of nonsense routines are the most divisive,

00:22:15.940 nasty figures in politics, pretending that they're all going to come and bring us together

00:22:19.140 and sing Kumbaya. But that's what she's doing. They're going to divide us into white and Latino

00:22:26.280 and black and black, but we're all united. We're united? When is AOC is the great uniter now? Yeah,

00:22:34.840 because you have to be when you run for president. And that lady is running for president. And the

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00:27:12.160 Obama, if we're all being totally honest about it. George Clooney just sat down for an interview.

00:27:18.540 He, he identified what is in his mind, the biggest problem for the Democrats.

00:27:23.820 They don't have anybody that's as charismatic as him. He's charismatic. There's no taking that away

00:27:28.800 from him. He's a television star. If you're a Democrat, we have to find some people to represent

00:27:33.920 us better, who have a sense of humor, and who have a sense of purpose. Okay. For starters,

00:27:45.280 the new hair is kind of weird because he had gray hair and now he has this jet black hair.

00:27:51.020 However, people are making fun of him for it. I kind of like it because it's very old Hollywood.

00:27:55.180 George Clooney has always been this kind of pale imitation of old Hollywood.

00:27:58.000 He's one of the few guys who could credibly claim to be a movie star. He ain't John Wayne. He ain't

00:28:03.560 Gary Cooper. Has he ever really opened a big movie? I don't know. He's been in a lot of movies, but

00:28:07.940 nevertheless, I kind of like that he's doing this throwback to old Hollywood. These guys in the

00:28:11.840 seventies who put, you know, just pen ink in their hair and, you know, it, it kind of, there's something

00:28:17.380 kind of charming about it. Okay. That's the first part. Second part. He says that Trump's big

00:28:24.980 advantage over the Democrats is that he's charismatic and he is charismatic. He's got a

00:28:31.240 great personality. He's a TV star. Yes, of course. Biggest personality in the room. Of course.

00:28:37.640 But, but Clooney is, is missing it here. And, and the Democrats missed this point at their own peril.

00:28:43.000 So I don't really care. If, if you're a Democrat listening, please don't tell the strategists

00:28:47.040 the secret. Trump did not win because of his personality. Trump won because he offered different

00:28:57.460 policies. That's it. Some people voted for Trump because of his personality. Some people did not

00:29:03.840 vote for Trump because of his personality. The personality I think was essentially neutral.

00:29:10.300 Trump offered a different political vision in 2016. First, a different political vision from

00:29:14.940 the other Republicans. They all wanted more and more free trade, more and more globalism.

00:29:19.820 Trump said, no, we're going to impose tariffs, trade restrictions. We're going to turn from

00:29:25.220 globalism to nationalism. That was a different view. All the Republicans ran on, maybe they would talk

00:29:33.740 about securing the border, but they basically said, you know, migration, we're a country of immigrants.

00:29:39.420 It's, you know, we gotta, we gotta get a little tighter about the border. Trump comes down,

00:29:42.260 he says, these migrants are rapists and murderers. It's different. That's a different

00:29:46.920 kind of view. All the Republicans were still defending the Bush era of foreign policy,

00:29:52.040 bombing the Middle East, trying to build Madisonian democracies there. Trump said the Iraq war was

00:29:57.400 stupid. You might even defend the Iraq war. I'm just pointing out Trump offered a different

00:30:02.760 substantive policy vision. I remember Ann Coulter said this at the time. She said, everyone thinks

00:30:08.040 that people voted for Trump for his personality, despite his policy, when actually it's the opposite.

00:30:14.420 They voted for Trump for his policy, despite in some cases, his personality. And the libs can't

00:30:20.320 really face that. Because if they say, oh, it's just because he's more charismatic, then the libs

00:30:25.420 don't have to change anything. Then the Democrats can just keep their party exactly as it is. And they

00:30:29.420 just need, they just need to get George Clooney to run. I don't know, who knows? Maybe George Clooney

00:30:32.160 wants to run for president. He's obviously interested in politics. He's one of the most politically

00:30:36.760 active people in Hollywood. Maybe, maybe that's why he dyed his hair. Maybe he's trying to set

00:30:39.780 himself up for a 2028 run. But they, the Democrats will not be successful if that's the lesson they

00:30:47.400 take. If the, if what they think is, no, no, we're perfect the way we are. We just need to be a

00:30:51.680 little, we need to smile more on camera or something. You're going to lose. You're going to, you have to

00:30:57.260 deal with the reality that the popular vote went to the guy who ran on mass deportations. The popular

00:31:06.480 vote went to the guy who ran on tariffs. The popular vote went to the guy who ran against

00:31:12.420 the transgender insanity. You got to deal with those issues. But as long as you're going down

00:31:18.860 and canoodling Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, you know, stroking his hair and saying, it'll be

00:31:24.640 okay. We'll be able to import you and the rest of MS-13 back into America real soon. You're going to

00:31:29.420 lose. The more you push and push on peddling LGBT insanity to four-year-olds, you're going to lose.

00:31:39.820 And I don't care how charismatic your, your politician is. I don't care how charismatic

00:31:44.740 Trump is. You're going to lose because of the issues, not because of the personality.

00:31:49.700 Now, speaking of uncharismatic Democrats, Michelle Obama is back in the news.

00:31:54.780 She is finally explaining some of her strange behavior earlier in the year. Michelle Obama

00:32:00.760 has, has disappeared from public life until now. Now she wants some more attention, but

00:32:05.660 Barack Obama showed up alone to Jimmy Carter's funeral. Michelle Obama didn't show up. Michelle

00:32:13.220 Obama didn't show up to the inauguration, right? Where has Michelle Obama been? This is very unusual

00:32:19.320 for a former first lady not to show up to the handful of events that they are expected to show

00:32:25.600 up to by virtue of their position. The funerals of past presidents and major events of state,

00:32:33.220 such as the inauguration of a new president. Here's her explanation.

00:32:36.820 My decision to skip the inauguration, you know, what people don't realize, or my decision to make

00:32:44.040 choices at the beginning of this year that suited me were met with such ridicule and criticism.

00:32:50.680 While I'm here really trying to own my life and intentionally practice making the choice that

00:32:58.080 was right for me. And it took everything in my power to not do the thing that was right,

00:33:04.580 or that was, was that, that was perceived as right, but do the thing that was right for me.

00:33:10.560 Mm-hmm. That was a hard thing for me to do. It was hard for me to not do the right thing.

00:33:18.620 It was really hard for me to do the wrong thing. And I should be applauded for that.

00:33:26.700 I, I did it. I succeeded at doing the wrong thing. Aren't you proud of me? You see, because

00:33:34.160 people thought I should do the thing that was good for everybody, where I took other

00:33:40.480 people into consideration by virtue of, at the very least, all the things other people have done

00:33:45.800 for me, made me the first lady of the United States. And because I'm supposed to care about

00:33:51.280 the common good. And, but I wanted to just be really, really selfish. And it was hard to be

00:33:58.180 selfish, but I, I was selfish. Please give me a round of applause. That's what she's saying.

00:34:03.020 And it's not just her. I'm not just singling up Michelle Obama. You hear every lib talk about

00:34:12.580 this. Kim Kardashian said this. Kim Kardashian, mother of how many children, wife, a few times

00:34:19.640 over. Kim Kardashian said, you know, in my forties, I'm just going to really focus on me.

00:34:23.860 Excuse me? No, that's not what you do in your forties. That's not what you're supposed to do.

00:34:31.860 You focus on you when you're a little baby. And then you focus on you even when you're a kid and

00:34:36.920 a teenager and probably even into your early twenties, unfortunately. When you're 40 and you

00:34:41.580 have a lot of responsibilities and you have people who depend on you and that's not you time. When you're

00:34:48.060 the first lady of the United States, look, that comes with a lot of privilege. You get to live in the

00:34:52.860 White House. You get, you get a lot of money when you leave the White House. You get protection. You

00:34:58.600 get adulation. You get cheering crowds, but there is a cost to that. You're supposed to serve the

00:35:05.340 public. You're supposed to not always put your selfish interests first, but you hear this Obama

00:35:11.480 down to Kim Kardashian down to your rebellious liberal cousin or sister. You know, I'm just going to

00:35:18.440 focus on me. It's so hard. You see this on Instagram. It's so hard. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is

00:35:23.880 to put yourself first and to love yourself. And you need to heal yourself and you just need to focus,

00:35:29.960 forget about other people. Don't do what's right for them. Do what's right for you. You, you, you. Me, me,

00:35:35.100 me. All through the night. I, me, mine. I, me, mine. I, me, mine. Me, me, me, me, me. Well, a man

00:35:39.620 wrapped up in himself makes a small package indeed. This is, she's, she is talking about selfishness

00:35:45.240 and the left broadly talks about selfishness as though it were a virtue, as though it were difficult.

00:35:53.180 I'm selfish too. I try not to be selfish, but I am selfish. I'm very selfish. It's very easy to be

00:35:58.360 selfish. It's very hard to be charitable and to think of others, but that's what we have to do.

00:36:07.360 One, for our own good, because if you become totally selfish, you'll, you'll destroy yourself.

00:36:12.460 You'll make of yourself a God and your God will disappoint you. But also because we're a political

00:36:17.220 animal. We're a social creature. We're born into the context of, of community. Really, it's bad

00:36:24.480 enough when you're totally uneducated, rebellious, liberal sister posts nonsense like this to

00:36:29.740 Instagram. Here we have the former first lady of the United States saying exactly the same thing.

00:36:35.220 But that's it. That, to me, this is the big distinction between the right and the left.

00:36:38.900 Certainly today, and probably that's what it's always been.

00:36:43.360 Contrary to what you've heard about the bleeding hearts, you know, caring, wonderful liberals,

00:36:48.060 the liberals ultimately, ultimately are focused on the self.

00:36:52.540 And the conservatives, ultimately, ultimately, I know we, you know, sometimes we like low taxes and

00:37:00.240 all the rest of it. But when you really get down to it, we have a conception of the common good for

00:37:06.020 the country that is truly about the common good and not just the amalgam of private interest.

00:37:11.720 This, in Pascal's Ponce, Blaise Pascal, one of the great geniuses of modernity,

00:37:19.980 the best known for Pascal's Wager, where he says you should believe in God because it's just the

00:37:24.240 rational bet to make. But Pascal said, you know, our concupiscence is such that we

00:37:31.180 try to manipulate our concupiscence. We try to manipulate our selfishness so that we create

00:37:39.600 enough incentives that it will be good for everyone. And we confuse that with charity,

00:37:43.700 but that's not really what charity is. The left and the right have both done that

00:37:47.520 to some degree. We try to create systems that will channel our private interest

00:37:53.580 toward helping others. You know, in many ways, that's kind of what capitalism does.

00:37:59.060 But that's not real charity. And at least for the right, we have a conception of charity that we

00:38:03.940 often fail to live up to. Hypocrisy is the tribute vice-based virtue. For the left,

00:38:07.600 they've actually redefined charity as to be selfishness. Any wonder we are where we are,

00:38:16.760 and any wonder that that political party, which has been exposed so clearly in recent years,

00:38:21.060 is finally being kicked to the fringes of politics. At the Daily Wire, we ask the hard questions.

00:38:26.380 We go get the answers. That is why Ben just went to Ukraine, a nation under fire, for an exclusive

00:38:31.260 sit-down with President Vladimir Zelensky. And I really hope he handed him a receipt for all that

00:38:35.480 money that we've given him over the years from USAID and corruption to, in fairness, Putin's

00:38:42.080 ambitions and the battle for religious freedom. Nothing is off limits. This is not spin. This is

00:38:46.620 clarity in the fog of war. Part two of the Ben Shapiro with President Zelensky interview drops

00:38:52.640 today. All new episode of the Ben Shapiro show streaming at 11 a.m. Eastern time only on Daily Wire

00:38:58.480 Plus. My favorite comment yesterday is from SlapMyBase3825, who says,

00:39:04.520 with everything we have seen in the NFL, from Ray Rice to Michael Vick, does this Shannon Sharp story

00:39:09.620 surprise anyone? It does not. It certainly does. I said yesterday, you know, it's not exactly man

00:39:14.100 bites dog. Either way, the story shakes out. NFL player abuses women or gold digger shakes down rich

00:39:21.020 guy. And neither of those would be surprising, however this turns out. The one difference,

00:39:25.920 though, is in the case of like Michael Vick, for instance, the pit bulls never sent text messages

00:39:32.900 explicitly asking for the supposed crime that was committed, which is actually a crime.

00:39:37.620 That's what makes it so interesting. The Shannon Sharp case alleges abuse, which is very wrong and

00:39:48.680 probably a crime. The girl who is alleging abuse, the plaintiff, explicitly asked this man multiple

00:39:58.860 times in lurid, graphic, disgusting ways to abuse her. And then he obliged. And then she's saying that

00:40:07.820 was a crime. And it is a crime. But that's why the story is so confounding to modern people for whom

00:40:12.700 consent is the sole moral criterion. Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of

00:40:19.020 the week. When I get to hear from you in the mailbag, our mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk. Go to Pure

00:40:23.100 Talk today. PureTalk.com slash Knowles. Switch over and you will get a year of Daily Wire Plus for free

00:40:29.400 with a qualifying plan. Take it away.

00:40:32.560 Hello, Mr. Knowles. I have a question about having more children. I know that you've got your kiddos,

00:40:36.780 and I would assume that you're planning on having some more in the future. Me and my wife have been

00:40:40.460 married for almost eight years now, and we have a young family with two little ones. Recently, my

00:40:45.500 wife and I have discussed when we should have more children of our own. She's still a little reluctant

00:40:50.140 because obviously the women are the ones that have to go through the child rearing and the birthing

00:40:54.380 process. Of course, that's a difficult thing to go through physically. However, her main concerns are

00:40:59.440 about the timing in terms of our older children are growing up. She doesn't want to miss out on their

00:41:04.280 upbringing as they are growing up. We're a one-income family. I work. She stays at home, so she gets to see

00:41:09.480 them more than, you know, if we sent them to a daycare. However, she's a little concerned with

00:41:13.840 splitting her attention three ways instead of two or four ways instead of two. How would you go about

00:41:19.700 dissuading her concerns to make sure she's just as every bit on board and 100% as I am? I think

00:41:25.460 some motivation from our favorite Daily Wire host would go a long way, as well as some spiritual

00:41:29.940 insight. Thanks for all you do. Yeah, she's fine. The best gift you can give your kids is siblings.

00:41:36.540 Forget about it. Forget about that. What, she thinks she's not going to see the kids grow up? But as you

00:41:42.460 say, she's a stay-at-home mother. She gets to see her kids more than just about anybody in modern

00:41:47.020 society. Don't forget about that. Come on. She's fine. Have some more kids. That's what I would say.

00:41:52.760 And I've seen it. I actually don't have siblings. I have step-siblings who, you know, I'm like quite

00:41:58.260 close with my stepbrother. And so, you know, I got a little taste of siblings, but I didn't have

00:42:06.500 them growing up. So oddly enough, I kind of saw both sides of having siblings and not having siblings.

00:42:11.320 And I've just seen with big families, it's just good. It's better. And a friend of mine told me

00:42:19.060 this quite clearly. He has a lot of kids. He says, the best gift you can give your kids

00:42:21.940 is siblings. If you had told me, Michael, we're in difficult circumstances. You know,

00:42:28.120 my wife has had two C-sections or three C-sections. I might say, okay, maybe on doctor's orders,

00:42:33.900 it makes a little more sense to not have Irish twins back to back to back. Maybe you could space

00:42:38.440 them out a tiny little bit or something. Okay. I understand that. Or if you said, Michael,

00:42:41.640 we don't, we're destitute. We don't have any money. My wife and I are both working and we just

00:42:45.820 can't make ends meet. I'd say, okay, well, I understand there's some considerations here. Okay. Maybe

00:42:50.040 whatever. But, oh, it sounds like you and your wife are in the perfect position to have a bunch

00:42:56.300 of kids, which is the greatest kind of wealth that one can imagine in a household, especially today.

00:43:02.460 So do it. Have more kids. Have more kids right now. Next one.

00:43:08.580 Hello, Michael. On Tuesday's show, you spoke of that journalist who was praising Luigi for killing

00:43:13.720 that CEO. A few weeks ago in Madera, California, a man shot up a Walgreens killing a man.

00:43:19.620 This might sound like it was a random shooting, but it wasn't. When arrested, the shooter admitted

00:43:24.840 that he had a, quote, general disdain or grudge against pharmacies. In my opinion, this is obviously

00:43:31.300 inspired by Luigi and all the glorification he was given by the left, making others believe that

00:43:36.860 it's an acceptable action to kill when you have a grudge against those in the medical field.

00:43:41.740 This innocent man wasn't a rich CEO. He was a cashier trying to provide for his family. And now his

00:43:47.460 wife doesn't have a husband and his kids don't have a father. I wanted to hear what your opinion

00:43:52.120 was as to whether you thought this was inspired by the Luigi case or just a coincidence. Thank you

00:43:58.440 and God bless. It could be inspired by the Luigi case. I don't know for certain, but one issue I'll

00:44:05.540 take with the way you presented it is you said, look, this guy behind the counter, he wasn't a rich CEO.

00:44:09.460 Well, so what if he was? It doesn't make it any easier for the poor healthcare CEO's wife and kids

00:44:16.240 that they just lost their husband and father because he was rich. I think he was also a

00:44:22.140 self-made guy. I don't even think, but even if he weren't a self-made guy, it wouldn't,

00:44:24.780 it doesn't change the calculation. It's just always awful. So the real issue here is not the,

00:44:34.180 you know, uh, the left is glorifying Luigi in particular. The real issue here is not even

00:44:40.980 that there is a big turn against the pharmaceutical industry. The issue here is the moral thinking

00:44:46.900 that, uh, intrinsically immoral actions can be justified for good ends. That's the problem.

00:44:55.340 And that is thinking that has pervaded our society for hundreds of years at this point. And that even

00:45:01.040 many people supposedly on the right will, will, uh, accept this, this kind of consequentialism that

00:45:08.320 says, well, yeah, I know I was told thou shalt not commit murder, but what if he, the guy works for

00:45:14.660 an industry that I really don't like? What if it'll be good in the long run? You know, maybe you got to

00:45:19.500 crack some eggs to make an omelet. That, that, that moral thinking is, is far more culpable than

00:45:25.300 the, these random leftists who are simping over Luigi. I mean, they're, they're culpable too, and

00:45:31.420 they need to shut up and, you know, go pray and, uh, fix themselves and be fixed. But, uh, the, that

00:45:38.780 deeper consequentialism, that's a, that's a big problem. Because we're, we're told now that the

00:45:44.360 Ten Commandments are a joke. We mock the notion of the Ten Commandments. We mock the notion that

00:45:49.420 actions can be intrinsically evil. We mock the notion that there is even a transcendent moral

00:45:55.040 order, but we have to behave as though there is some kind of moral order. So the moral order becomes

00:45:59.920 highly ideological and ultimately consequentialist. As long as we get to whatever vision we have for

00:46:05.960 politics, even if it's utopian, then anything we do along the way can be justified, which is a real,

00:46:12.740 uh, convenience for people who commit habitual sin. Next, next question.

00:46:20.860 Mr. Michael Knowles, this is your friend and second favorite UFC fighter, smiling Sam Alvey.

00:46:26.240 I just had to let you know my next fight is in about three weeks. May 2nd, I'll be fighting for

00:46:31.600 Karate Combat again, but this time in Dubai, and this time for my second world title. Now, of course,

00:46:37.940 I want you back in my corner, but this is quite the trip and you're already away from your

00:46:41.920 lovely, sweet little Lisa, too much as is. What I would like to talk to you about, though,

00:46:46.780 is a sponsorship. One of my fondest fighting memories is defending my title with you in my

00:46:52.560 corner, hands up and breathe. You remember that? And after getting my belt put back around my waist,

00:46:58.480 lighting up a Mayflower cigar with you in my corner. Now, normally I would charge thousands of dollars

00:47:04.140 to be on a shirt and get full access to my social media, but for you and those delicious Mayflower

00:47:09.260 cigars, I would do it for a cigar. After I get my hand raised, I will light that bad boy up in my

00:47:15.780 corner in your honor. What do you think, my friend? That sounds great, Sam. And now I actually wish that

00:47:22.680 I could accompany you to Dubai because that sounds like a lot of fun, though you're right. Sweet

00:47:26.780 little Elisa would probably do a little Karate Combat on me if I took a trip to the Middle East right

00:47:30.620 now. However, that's a pretty good deal. You know, some of you don't know, I did corner for Sam at

00:47:36.040 Karate Combat. And we had a whole great video about it that for whatever reason we weren't able to

00:47:40.080 release yet. Hopefully we'll be able to get that video out. This was a while ago. But that's a

00:47:44.120 pretty good deal. This is the art of the deal. Sam, expect some cigars to be coming your way shortly,

00:47:49.700 especially in Dubai where they let you smoke in a bunch of places. You can smoke in nightclubs and

00:47:53.800 things like that. This is good stuff. I'm in. I'm in. Old Knuckle Knolls over here is in, Sam. Next question.

00:48:01.220 Hi, Michael. It's the Shuckmeister. I was out to breakfast with a friend recently and we were

00:48:06.520 talking about the places where we get our news. I mentioned the show, obviously. And he said that

00:48:10.960 he appreciates you, but that you failed a very basic intelligence test. And I'm thinking, okay,

00:48:16.220 what's it got to be? It's got to be something super spicy, right? And he said, once upon a time,

00:48:20.320 you called The Great Gatsby a boring book. So given that we recently passed the 100th anniversary of

00:48:26.020 the publication and that I reread it for the first time since high school and loved it,

00:48:29.960 I would like to know, why do you think The Great Gatsby is a boring book? Love the show.

00:48:33.880 Thanks. Did I say that? I actually, I'm not trying to run away from my opinion. I just don't

00:48:40.900 recall ever having said that because I like The Great Gatsby. It's not my favorite book ever. It's

00:48:45.640 not the greatest book ever written, but I like The Great Gatsby a lot. I like Scott Fitzgerald a lot.

00:48:51.520 Scott Fitzgerald famously said that Harvard men are sissies and Yale is November crisp and energetic.

00:48:56.600 So I don't, I think I'm being unfairly accused here. I, maybe I said it at some point. I mean,

00:49:02.200 I guess it's boring compared to, I don't know, crime and punishment or something or war and peace,

00:49:08.460 but I don't, I like The Great Gatsby. What are you accusing me of? What this is,

00:49:15.940 I think I'm being falsely accused and I demand satisfaction. Today, speaking of fake news,

00:49:21.960 is Fake Headline Friday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it.

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